A sunny day in Auvkland, January 2012

Took these Picts last month on a gorgeous day last month.

It seems that New Zealand is a truly blessed country endow with beautiful places and fabulous views.

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5:12pm, 25-12-2010, Christmas Dinner, Auckland, New Zealand (Celebration, Santa, Claus, celebration, "David Lim")

Turkey came as a surprise after ham being served!

1/4 left of what was the Christmas Ham!

Some bubbles to go along with the turkey!

Sweet and succulent cherries goes well with the bubbles!

Desert made by Piek Yan and Olivia

Snowman on the Christmas Tree

Santa on the Christmas tree!

Yummy fruit cake made by Angie.

Turkey were served after we had the Christmas Ham. then deserts were served.
Christmas 2010, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Merry Christmas from Highland Park, Auckland, New Zealand, (2010, celebration, joy, Santa, Claus, presents, "David Lim"

25-12-2010. We are now at Highland Park, Auckland, New Zealand. Now preparing the Christmas feast and we have ham for the Christmas. Weather is cooling and a bit cloudy.

Largest Object Removed From Human Skull (world medical record, 2010, Auckland, New Zealand)

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In 1998, while he was at a friend's residence in Jacksonville, Florida, an unknown assailant stabbed Michael Hill in the head and left, presuming that his target would lay down and die like a normal human being. Instead, Michael wandered down the street to another friend's house to get help with an 8 inch survival knife still embedded in his grey matter. The odds defying, ball of bronze Michael explained that he "...didn't feel the pain initially and it was only when I was at the hospital that it hit me and I felt like my eyes were bulging out."

Hill's arrival and treatment at the Shands Jacksonville Trauma center was documented and broadcast on the TLC series Trauma: Life in the E.R. http://tiny.cc/large


Despite the large knife penetrating his brain, Hill was conscious and responsive when arrived at the hospital. Four hours after he arrived the knife was removed. Hill survived without even an infection and within seven days was discharged from the hospital, although the knife had caused permanent damage to his memory and paralyzed his left hand. He now has occasional headaches and needs medication to prevent seizures. He's now the proud holder of the Guiness Record for "Largest Object Removed From Human Skull".

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KEANU REEVES’ FIRST NAME IS PRONOUNCED “KAY-AH-NOO” NOT “KEY-AH-NOO”

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Keanu Reeves’ first name is pronounced “Kay-ah-noo”, but is commonly mispronounced “Key-ah-Noo”.  That isn’t the only misconception surrounding his name though.  The name itself means “the coolness”, but is often incorrectly said to mean “cool breeze over the mountains”. http://tiny.cc/Reeves
Reeves’ was named after his uncle Henry Keanu Reeves.  In his early days in Hollywood, his agent thought his name was too exotic and in his early films he’s often credited as K.C. Reeves; his middle name is Charles.

Bonus Factoids:


Reeves’ estranged father earned his GED in prison in Hawaii.  He was in jail for selling heroin at the airport.  His father left his mother when Keanu was 3 years old.
Kim Reeves, Keanu’s only full sister, was born in Australia and has been battling leukemia since her first diagnosis in the late 1990s.


In 1999, Reeves’ girlfriend, Jennifer Syme, gave birth to a stillborn daughter just a few weeks before the due date.  In 2001, Jennifer was killed in a car accident, having smashed into three parked cars driving home from a party at Marilyn Manson’s house.


In 1991, Reeves best friend, outside of his dying sister, actor River Phoenix died of a drug overdose.


Besides Reeves’ father (Samuel Nowlin Reeves, a geologist), his mother, who was once a stripper and is now a designer, has also been married to a Broadway and Hollywood director (Paul Aaron); a rock promoter (Robert Miller); a hairdresser (Jack Bond); and two others (for six total marriages).


Reeves’ attended five different high schools in five years, including getting expelled from one.  In his own words, he got expelled because: “I was greasy and running around a lot. I was just a little too rambunctious and shot my mouth off once too often. I was not generally the most well-oiled machine in the school. I was just getting in their way, I guess.”  He eventually attended an anarchistic free school “Avondale Alternative” which allowed him to act while continuing to go to school.  He later dropped out and didn’t ever get a high school diploma.


Throughout high school, what he was best at was hockey, having been fairly poor at academics partly because of dyslexia.  His primary position in hockey was goalie.  He was so good he was named MVP and nicknamed “The Wall”.  His dream, at that time, was to play hockey in the Olympics and hopefully professionally.  He ended up having to quit hockey due to an injury.  His hockey experience did help him land his first movie role in the hockey film Youngblood.


Reeves once revealed in an interview that he used to have frequent nightmares where he would die and on his tombstone it said: “He played Ted”, referring to his role in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and the sequel to that film.


Reeves’ famously turned down a role opposite Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino in the movie Heat to pursue the leading role in the Manitoba Theatre Centre production of Hamlet.  Roger Lewis, the Sunday Times critic, wrote, “He quite embodied the innocence, the splendid fury, the animal grace of the leaps and bounds, the emotional violence, that form the Prince of Denmark…He is one of the top three Hamlets I have seen, for a simple reason: he *is* Hamlet.”

In Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, the time machine was originally supposed to be a 1969 Chevy van, but this was changed as they felt it was too close to Back to the Future’s DeLorean.  They picked a phone booth inspired by the box-shaped TARDIS time machine from Doctor Who.


There was actually supposed to be a Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure 3.  This was eventually scrapped, but  you can still go watch the movie in its slightly modified form, Bio-Dome, starring Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin.  Large portions of the script and much of the storyline were adapted for that movie.


Along with acting, Reeves also played bass guitar in the grunge band Dogstar, in the 1990s, and more recently in the band Becky.  The former band was apparently huge in Japan, though more for Keanu than for that actual band. “In Japan, if Keanu scratched his head, they screamed.  If he went to tie a shoelace they fainted,” said drummer Robert Mailhouse.

Keanu Reeves was born in Lebanon.  His mother is English and his father is an American with very mixed heritage (English, Hawaiian, Chinese, and Portuguese).


Reeves has citizenship in the United States through his father; in Canada by naturalization; and in Britain by his mother.  Given that he grew up in Canada, he considers himself Canadian.

Keanu Reeves donated about 75 million dollars from his Matrix earnings to the costume and special effects teams who worked on the films.
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Ke-anu
Street, Pālolo, Honolulu, named for a family living there when the tract was opened. (TM.) Lit., the coolness.

Keanu Reeves:Five Fun Facts

1. Keanu Reeves' first name, taken from his great uncle, means "cool breezes over the mountains" in Hawaiian.
2. Keanu Reeves' mother worked as a costume designer for stars, leading to the occasional wrestling match at his house. "I remember once, Keanu and I trying to take on Alice Cooper," childhood pal Evan Williams tells PEOPLE. "He tied us up like a human knot."
3. To show his gratitude for their work on the two Matrix sequels, Keanu Reeves bought each of his 12 stuntmen a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
4. In 1994, a professor at the Art Center College in Pasadena, Calif., introduced a course called "Films of Keanu Reeves." Each week the students studied the "cultural nuances" of his then 16-film body of work.
5. For nearly his first decade in show business, Keanu Reeves did not rent or own a home. Between films, he would either take a room at L.A.'s famous Chateau Marmont hotel or crash at his sister Kim's home.

Video gamer hunts down, stabs man who killed his online ‘Counter-Strike’ character (Strange, news, report, Auckland"

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A French video game fanatic has hunted down and stabbed a rival player who killed his character in the popular online game Counter-Strike. The 20-year old Julien Barreaux reportedly spent six months looking for the player who killed his character in a virtual knife fight. He eventually located his victim, named only as Mikhael several miles from his home in the town of Cambria.

Armed with a kitchen Knife, he went to the man’s house and knocked the door several times. When the man answered the door, Julien plunged a kitchen knife into his chest, missing his heart by less than an inch; a police officer told the court.  http://tiny.cc/videokiller

The victim barely survived the attack and was rushed to the local hospital for emergency surgery. A local police officer told the courts “Barreaux was arrested within the hour and told us he had wanted to see his rival wiped out for killing off his character.”

He was sentenced to two years in jail for causing grievous bodily harm and ordered to take anger management classes. Judge Alexiane Potel described Julien Barreaux as a “menace to society”.

“I am frankly terrified of the disproportionate reaction you could have if someone looked at you the wrong way in the street,” she said.

Major road works in Auckland, New Zealand 4th-5th September, 2010 (traffic, news, report, update)

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Stay at home this weekend? Aucklanders are advice not to travel by car, use the train (it is free this week) due to the major road works and viaduct upgrade. Read the news at NZ Herald.